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How Nonprofits Can Use Instagram for Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It will also grant you access to more advanced analytics and improved ad campaign management, as well as enable you to add contact information to your page. Instagram doesn’t let you add links to post captions — meaning that users who click through will always go through the contact info on your page or a link in your bio.

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How To Photograph Your Silent Auction Items Like A Pro

Greater Giving

A Successful Online Silent Auction Requires Great Photos of Your Auction Items. Good photos can help a silent auction item sell for more, and bad photos will hurt your chances of getting the highest price possible. You’ll want to use a simple, solid-colored background for your photos.

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Social Media for Social Good :: Your Nonprofit Tech Checklist

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Get the necessary training (HTML, digital photography, video, social media, and mobile technology). Write content and secure photos for website pages. Create and organize photos into collections and sets. Add funders and partners as contacts. Write content and secure photos for blog pages. Create a Google account.

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3 Tips for Running Your Next Event

Achieve

Contact those on your list. INVEST IN VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY. You can certainly find places to cut costs at your event; however, high-quality photos and videos of the experience are imperative. Draft an agreement with expectations of what each party will do. Finalize the agreement. Rehearsal time and who will be there.

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How to Choose the Right Image for Your Website

Tech Soup

Good, this is important: Photos and other images should never be used just as decoration. For starters, this is a stock photo, which automatically feels staged and inorganic. As my colleague Wes Holing observed, "It's the photo equivalent of a saltine." How much does the size of the photo affect this?

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What do Digital Touch and Yellow Cling Peaches Have in Common?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I couldn't resist doing some macro photography of the cling peaches at the Mountain View Farmer's market. The point is not only to contact people when you want to ask them to do something. I am enjoying the weekly Farmer's Markets in California. Send at least 20 "checking in" emails every two days.

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2007: New Year's Technology Resolutions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To stop being a digital slob in terms of my hard drive, tagging habits, flickr photo annotation, blog posts, etc. To hone my video and photography skills in the creation, shooting, and editing. To organize all my contacts that are distributed all over the place in various social networking communities.